Incoming Senate President John Morse[3], D-Colorado Springs, on Monday terminated John Cevette[4], who had served as chief of staff to Morse’s predecessor, President Brandon Shaffer[5], D-Longmont, and replaced Cevette with Kjersten Forseth[6], a public relations consultant and political strategist who also has worked as the executive director of the liberal attack group ProgressNow Colorado[7] and as a union organizer. Forseth also ran one of Morse’s prior Senate campaigns.

Morse, though, kept staffer Jessica Bralish[9] to work in his office. He said he anticipated filling the vacant jobs soon.

It’s not uncommon for such sweeps when the new leader of a chamber takes office. Prior Senate presidents, including Shaffer, also had such staff house cleanings, and these kinds of shake-ups have occurred with both parties and in both chambers.

“As is normal when there is a change of administrations, there was also a change of administration staffing,” Morse said.

[8] Eddie Stern, a former journalist who’s run campaigns for U.S. Rep. John Salazar and state Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/eddie-stern/?doing_wp_cron=1354067948.2122728824615478515625